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The proceedings of the second meeting of the Avicenna Study Group was published on 30 August 2004 under the title Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam<\/em> as volume 56 in the series \u201cIslamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: Texts and Studies<\/a>\u201d (Leiden\/Boston: Brill). The volume was edited by Jon McGinnis, in close collaboration with David C. Reisman, and consisted of an introduction followed by twelve papers divided intro four categories to a total of 262+xviii pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This volume provides twelve essays on various aspects of Avicenna’s philosophical and scientific contributions, approaching these topics from philological, historical and philosohical methodologies. The work is conceptually divided into four sections: (1) methodology, (2) natural philosophy and the exact sciences, (3) theology and metaphysics and (4) Avicenna’s heritage. The First section provides considerations for distinguishing genuine from pseudo Avicennan works. The second section deals with topics encountered in Avicenna’s physics, psychology, mathematics and medical theories. The third section treats issues ranging from the theological sources for Avicenna’s proof for the existence of God and God’s knowledge of particulars to the place of puzzles in Avicenna’s Metaphysics as well as the relation of form and matter in Avicenna’s thought. The final section considers Avicenna’s historical influence on later thinkers such as al-Ghazali as well as his subsequent influence in Persia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Methodology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

David C. Reisman<\/strong>: \u201cThe Pseudo-Avicennan Corpus, I: Methodological Considerations\u201d (pp. 3\u201321)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avicenna on Natural Philosophy and the Exact Sciences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Catarina Belo<\/strong>: \u201cIbn S\u012bn\u0101 on Chance in the Physics<\/em> of a\u0161-\u0160if\u0101\u02be <\/em>\u201d (pp. 25\u201341)
\nJon McGinnis<\/strong>: \u201cOn the Moment of Substantial Change: A Vexed Question in the History of Ideas\u201d (pp. 42\u201361)
\nRobert E. Hall<\/strong>: \u201cIntellect, Soul and Body in Ibn S\u012bn\u0101: Systematic Synthesis and Development of the Aristotelian, Neoplatonic and Galenic Theories\u201d (pp. 62\u201386)
\nPeter Adamson<\/strong>: \u201cNon-Discursive Thought in Avicenna\u2019s Commentary on the Theology of Aristotle<\/em>\u201d (pp. 87\u2013111)\n
Irina Luther<\/strong>: \u201cThe Conception of the Angle in the Works of Ibn S\u012bn\u0101 and a\u0161-\u0160\u012br\u0101z\u012b\u201c (pp. 112\u2013125)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avicenna on Theology and the Metaphysics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u00d6mer Mahir Alper<\/strong>: \u201cAvicenna\u2019s Argument for the Existence of God: Was He Really Influenced by the Mutakallim\u016bn<\/em>?\u201d (pp. 129\u2013141)
\nRahim Acar<\/strong>: \u201cReconsidering Avicenna\u2019s Position on God\u2019s Knowledge of Particulars\u201d (pp.142\u2013156)
\nAmos Bertolacci<\/strong>: \u201cThe Reception of Book B (Beta<\/em>) of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics<\/em> in the Il\u0101h\u012by\u0101t<\/em> of Avicenna\u2019s Kit\u0101b a\u0161-\u0160if\u0101\u02be<\/em>\u201d (pp. 157\u2013174)
\nOlga Lizzini<\/strong>: \u201cThe Relation Between Form and Matter: Some Brief Observations on the \u2018Homology Argument\u2019 (Il\u0101h\u012by\u0101t<\/em>, II.4) and the Deduction of Fluxus<\/em>\u201d (pp. 175\u2013185)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Heritage of Avicenna<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

M. Afifi Al-Akiti<\/strong>: \u201cThe Three Properties of Prophethood in Certain Works of Avicenna and al-\u0120az\u0101l\u012b\u201d (pp. 189\u2013212)
\nRoxanne D. Marcotte<\/strong>: \u201cResurrection (Ma\u02bf\u0101d<\/em>) in the Persian \u1e24ay\u0101t an-Nuf\u016bs<\/em> of Ism\u0101\u02bf<\/em>\u012bl Ibn Mu\u1e25ammad R\u012bz\u012b: The Avicennan Background\u201d (pp. 213\u2013235)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n